The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13
WEST AND SOUTH.

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employed as collector by Jacob Peake, a
Cincinnati printer, was on the 4th charged
by his employer with embezzlement. The
boy acknowledged the crime and asked
that his father be sent for to make it good.
While waiting for the father to come, young
Watkins swallowed prussic acid and died
in few minutes.
In the Criminal Court at st. Louis, on the
4th the grand jury returned true bills
against Frederick Wittrock, Thomas
Weaver and William NJ. Haight, charged
with robbing the Adams express. The
prisoners were brought in and pleaded
guilty to the Indictment. The judge SEN
fenced Wittrock and Haight to seven years
in the penitentiary-the extreme penalty
and Weaver was given five years.
All the collieries in the Wilkesbarre Pa-)
region shipping coal over. the New Jersey
Central railroad were idle on the 4th, on
account Of the strike Of the dock hands at
Port johnson and Elizabethport. The clos
ing of the mines has thrown over 5000 per-
sons out Of work.
The intercollegiate Prohibition conven-
tion adjourned at Cleveland, O., on the 4th,
after q two days session. The following
were elected officers: Rev. Herrick John
son, D. D., of Mccormick Theological Sem
mary, Chicago, president; Julius Il. Seelye,
D. D., LII. D., president of Amherst Col
lege, Massachusetts, first vice president;
R. L. Abernethy, president of Rutherford
College, North Carolina, second vice presi-
dent; w. T. Mills, of Wooster, secretary;
g. E. Rowe, of Madison University, Wis
consin, treasurer; Advisory Committee:
Rev. Joseph Cook, DIR. McCosh, DR.. Bascom,
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, J. s. Hopkins,
Prof. George M. Forbes and Miss Frances
Willard. A committee was appointed to
draft an address to the young men Of the
schools and colleges Of the country.
At Montpelier, Ind, the family Of John
Wooster, consisting of five persons, were
poisoned few days ago by eating biscuit
in which had been used an inferior quality
Of baking powder. At last accounts two Of
the children wore dying and the remainder
of the family were in precarious condition.
The ST. Louis grand jury has found an
indictment against Dan Moriarty, charging
him with being an accessory after the fact
to the jim Cummings express robbery.
A construction train on the Alabama &
Great Southern road was wrecked on the
5th, and Engineer Lewis and Fireman
Fowler were killed. The engine struck a
COW, left the rails and went down an en-
bankment.
DR.. j. N. Doyle, of Linton, Tenn, was
arrested at Nashville on the 5th for the
murder of Joseph Dentsch at Efingham,
Ill, twenty years ago Doyle was placed
under arrest when the crime was COM
mitted, but escaped from Jail and went to
Linton. where he has been practicing as a
physician ever since
Secretary Lamar was quietly married at
Macon, Ca, on the 5th to Mrs. William s.
| Holt, of that city.
At the annual meeting Of the Female Be
nevolent Society at Columbus, O., on the
5th, William 6. Deshler, a millionaire bank
! er of that city, presented the society with a
check for 100000
Snow fell at Montgomery, Ala, after
midnight on the 5th to a depth of three
inches. This is the second snow this win
ter, something almost unknown before.
On the 5th the port of Baltimore, Md,
was virtually closed by ice, which extended
down the river and into Chesapeake Bay, q
distance Of forty miles.
| The Michigan Legislature convened on
the 5th. Charles ]. Monroe was elected
President pro. tenn. of the Senate and d. P
Markey Speaker Of the House, both Repub
| licans.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt al
Paige and Bastrop, Tex, on the 5th, caus
ing considerable fright but no damage.
Victor Tarie, one Of Napoleon's ''Oli
Guards" died at San Antonio, Tex, on the
5th, aged ninety five years. He had been 6
resident Of Medina County, that State, fol
many years.